Food and Animal Rights Radicals to Converge at CSPI-Palooza

Mark your calendars for what promises to be the year's most important holiday for food zealots and animal rights fanatics. America’s most notorious diet scolds at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) announced yesterday that they have designated October 24, 2011 as (drum roll please) “Food Day.” The event is sure to be CSPI’s attempt to forever change the way Americans choose their food and eat it.

Helping Jacobson fulfill his prophetic vision of a joyless eating utopia will be a virtual Who’s Who of the food fringe, including:

Michael Pollan – A journalism professor who opposes modern farming techniques because he prefers to fantasize about the meals our ancestors used to whip up from only a handful of raw ingredients. (No one is nostalgically dreaming of a return to 19th-century medical practices, so why argue that food isn’t “real” if our great-grandmothers wouldn’t recognize it?)

The Humane Society of the United States – Despite sharing part of its name with animal welfare organizations dedicated to finding “forever homes” for displaced cats and dogs, this animal-rights behemoth uses its $191 million (and growing) war chest to discourage Americans from eating meat no matter how humanely it’s produced.

We’ve grown accustomed to hearing about prominent activist groups predicting, if not promising, millions will be in attendance at their marches and rallies. It’s curious to note that Michael Jacobson and CSPI make no such claim in their initial publicity pushes. Perhaps that’s because just like CSPI’s frivolous lawsuits and high-profile scare campaigns, they tend to fizzle and fade once people realize who’s behind all the hype. On a side note, perhaps it’s fate that “Food Day” is also National Bologna Day. It’s something CSPI certainly has in abundance.